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More Than An MD aims to highlight diversity within the healthcare field and discuss adversity faced by pre-meds, medical students and physicians. We dive into various topics including taking multiple gap years, facing rejections from programs, being an international student, dealing with financial hardships, having children during residency, doing poorly in exams, mental health and so much more! We hope to inspire people to pursue a career in medicine despite their background; whether they identify as first generation, low-socioeconomic, underserved, underrepresented, non-traditional, POC, international and/or LGBTQ+.

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S1. EP3. Aurelio "Al" Muzaurieta, M.Econ

April 14, 2021 • Madison Earle • Season 1 • Episode 3

Aurelio “Al" Muzaurieta is a second year medical student at the University of Michigan. He graduated from Harvard College in 2017 where he majored in Romance Languages and Literatures and minored in Global Health Policy, Latin American Studies, and Mandarin Chinese. Al is of Cuban heritage and is passionate about languages. He is fluent in Spanish, French, Portuguese and Mandarin.

In this episode, we chat about Al's college experience, his non-traditional pathway to medicine, being a medical student during the COVID-19 pandemic, his passion for language and so much more.

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Note: The views expressed in this podcast are exclusively Al’s and not representative of Michigan Medicine or the University of Michigan Medical School. In addition, the names and details of the stories shared were changed to protect the identities of the patients involved.